Octobermom: Really?! Wow, that's a lot! This stash cost $100.
Chel: I got the orange-edged newborn prefolds from Green Mountain Diapers, and some newborn Blue Penguin wrap 'n snaps that were on clearance. I chose the diapers from GMD primarily because GMD prefolds have resale value, which you can't really say about any other brand of prefolds once you're done paying shipping, although I plan to keep these as doublers for a long time after the baby outgrows them. And I got the wrap 'n snaps because my husband loves loves loves the Blue Penguin company and would order our entire stash from there if he were in charge--also because they were almost 50% off.
I've sort of decided not to go with Mother-ease this time around. Their products are top-notch quality and a great value for the money, but dh doesn't like the material their diapers are made out of, I don't like how the diapers don't fit well with other brands of cover, I don't like the Rikki Wraps all that much, and although
I love the Air Flow covers, it seems like they get put on inside out and backwards whenever I'm not the one doing the changing. Plus they don't hold unfastened prefolds, and I like having that option and dh especially does. Dh and I both got to where we really preferred front-snapping covers with dd.
I think it's worth it to get newborn sizes if you have the money. At least for us, although dd was on the tall side of average for most of the diapering years, for the first month she was
tiny and we were intimidated by how tiny she was and it was just really, really nice to have diapers that FIT, even for only a month, Kissaluvs 0 and newborn Bummis mostly. Every minute of that month was valuable! I tried smalls on her (both MEAF and Bummis) and she absolutely swam in them as a newborn. She was hard to fit in prefolds as a newborn, too; the GMD prefolds, both orange and yellow edged, would have worked better than the standard sizes we had, although the difference became much less noticeable once she was a couple of months old.
Sorry to write a novel. Hope the details help.
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) add that to all the sposies wipes and yea a TON for disposables.
